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The Gap Between

I’d like you to do something very simple. Sit back, close your eyes, and try to remember an entire conversation you’ve…

Toby Litt
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Find the shape of your story

Pick up one of the books you really like – it doesn’t matter if it’s fiction or non-fiction. Skim through it…

David Bodanis
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Shaping the flow of writing

This is very odd, but when it comes to non-fiction I like drawing little pictures of the inner dynamic or flow…

David Bodanis
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Veiling the Narrative

Stories are one of the ways we have to make sense of the world.  I’m interested not just in telling stories…

Kim Moore
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Read As If Your Life Depended On It

In What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics the great American poet Adrienne Rich says “You must…

Kim Moore
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Exploring different third person points of view

Write part of a story in the form of a scene from a play, beginning with a description of the setting…

Gillian Cross
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Subjective third person narrative

When I was a child, like most young readers I wanted to identify with the characters in books. I didn’t have…

Gillian Cross
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How to plan a chapter

There’s a joke that goes something like this:
Q: ‘How do you eat a whale?’
A: ‘One bite at a time.’…

Mike Gayle
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Five tips about planning your novel (and a word of warning)

1. It will help you get started
A lot of people cling to the romantic idea of a writer…

Mike Gayle
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Magic in the Mundane

A comic is a string of sequential panels that are both literary and visual in their storytelling. Striking the balance between…

Kristyna Baczynski
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Strongest Foot Forward

Making a comic involves a host of skills. Remember that when we make comics, we are combining words and images to…

Kristyna Baczynski
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Finding your Antagonistic Antagonist

Thrillers need to be page-turners with cracking plots, plenty of twists and great characters (particularly in psychological thrillers). They also need…

Sanjida Kay
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Creating an Antagonistic Antagonist

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Newton’s third law of motion could equally apply to fiction as…

Sanjida Kay
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Reconsider the mundane

Think of a hobby or passion you have, outside of writing and literature. So perhaps baking, or dancing, or gardening, or…

Andrew McMillan
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Rupture the mundane

I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble, but having the perfect thing to write about isn’t actually enough; that’s only half…

Andrew McMillan
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Reconsider, rewrite

Take a piece of writing. It might be a poem or short story. It might be a play or a novel….

Nell Leyshon